Sucks that DRM and user rights violations is about to get much much worse.
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Sucks that DRM and user rights violations is about to get much much worse.
Why on earth wasn't the community asked before you implemented this change?
> Given all of this, the continued support of uploading PGP signatures to PyPI is no longer defensible. While it doesn't represent a massive operational burden to continue to support it, it does require any new features that touch the storage of files to be made aware of and capable of handling these PGP signatures, which is a non zero cost on the maintainers and contributors of PyPI.
This uninformed reasoning is what's indefensible.
Doesn't matter. An echo-chamber that your target demographic frequents can be just as damaging to your overall reputation if not more.
Source: Someone currently working in government IT procurement who is literally in charge of evaluating cloud-based products (hi, google!).
Also funny you mention Paypal and Stripe: At my last job, we chose to go with traditional payment processors in large part because of how frequent stories about Paypal and Stripe screwing legitimate companies pop up.
I can't wait for riscv systems to take off. Hopefully we'll get more than the two horrible choices we have now and, hopefully, they won't be able to abuse the market in the same way.
Screw both intel and amd for deliberately putting us all at risk.
Think about it this way: Which is more tedious: going into the settings and enabling and disabling webGPU every time you need it or a popup? Which way would see you keeping it enabled?
Its tyranny of the default with an extra twist :)
Maybe that's why it fell to the wayside: scripts are no longer allowed to get the local IP address (taking with it the most useful aspect of WebRTC, true serverless p2p without internet[1]).
[1] I'm not saying that I disagree with the decision, but still sad that we can't have nice things :(
This is not true if you never agreed to Meta's license. If you haven't, you either can't redistribute the weights or you're completely free to use them as you see fit depending on whether weights are copyrightable (very likely) or not. We'll have to wait for the llama-dl lawsuit to find out for sure.
if you agreed to Facebook's contract. If you haven't, it's either public domain or copyright infringement.
Not everything is numbers and loss centers. Don't lie and do the right thing. Treat people with honesty and respect. It's not that difficult.
1. either lock everything down and accept the control of a small unaccountable group to dictate the future of humanity according to their morals and views - and I believe that AI will fundamentally shape how humanity will work and think, or 2. continue to uphold the ideas of individual freedom and democratic governance and accept a relative increase in the chance of a great filter event occurring.
I, like many here, am firmly against ggp's position. The harm that our spices sustains from having this technology controlled by the few far outweighs the marginal risk increase of some great filter occurring.
I will continue to help ensure that this technology remains open for everyone regardless their views, morals, and convictions until the day I die.
GP's advice is solid. Avoid US cloud services for handling any private data.
Now you could try to argue that it's copyright infringement but there are many solid arguments as to why these model weights don't meet the threshold of copyrightability.
You could also try to argue distribution of trade secrets, but facebook doesn't seem to view them as such - shared with little restrictions to anyone with an accedemic email, no vetting or ndas, etc.
I personally think that facebook planned all of this (sans the childish behavior occurring on their github repo, maybe). They probably wanted to release a capable language model publicly but didn't want the legal and social liabilities associated with it.
Facebook is no stranger to keeping things secret. I simply refuse to believe that they didn't see this happening.
(Thank you, Facebook!)
Yes. It's a mater of principle.
A big Thank You to OP and whoever set this up.
Edit: Not working for me. Perhaps the service is being squeezed to death?
"Need a real plumber? Well here's a good one for 5$. A competent lawyer? 50$ and I'll tell you."
The sad thing is that big corporations won't fix this problem unless they are allowed to fully compromise everyone's privacy. The can solve it in another way, but they won't. This is a people problem and requires people solutions (Governments).
I want an alternative to Python that can provide the same awesome batteries-included experience. I am also considering Nim but I want a language with a strong industry backing.